Xiangzhangli is located in the northwest corner of Chongzhou County, next to Xinghua and Gaocheng counties.

The torrential rain was pouring, and the horseback rode through such a ghost weather, clothed in rain, and the whole body was also poured through the heavy rain.

It is hard to imagine that the water of the Yunyan River, which is usually only one hundred and ten steps wide, is mighty at this time, and it seems that the river is even more magnificent, and the green reeds on the riverside are so flooded that only the verdant tender tips remain, and there are many half-submerged elm and poplar miscellaneous trees and scattered to the earthen houses and tiled houses that are soaked in the water.

There is no menacing flood in Chongzhou, and no matter how big the flood peak in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River comes down, it will also absorb and dissolve the river surface of the Chongzhou section of the river with a width of dozens of miles, but Chongzhou County and even the entire Hailing Mansion are all sand into land, the terrain is low and flat, and if the water cannot be discharged in time after a heavy rain, it will form serious waterlogging.

The Yunyan River was originally the main drainage channel in the north of Chongzhou County, but because the salt transport ships of the Weiyang Salt Iron Division mainly took the Beiguan River in Gaocheng County, the Chongzhou section of the Yunyan River was no longer important, and it was in disrepair for a hundred years, and the siltation was serious.

The most important thing for Lin Jian in front of him is not to fight against the Donghai Kou and the luxury family behind the Donghai Kou, but to fight against this ghost weather and the serious waterlogging disaster in Chongzhou.

It is said that Chongzhou should enter the flood season in July, in fact, before Lin Xuwen left Chongzhou, the weather in the entire Hailing Mansion and the sea east of Hailing Mansion was very smooth, and Lin Xuwen even took a sea boat to return to Jinhai.

After entering August, the weather became violent, the downpour did not stop for half a month, and all parts of the country were flooded, and the total number of affected fields exceeded 400,000 mu. Although there are exaggerated places in the townships, Lin Jian has been visiting the townships non-stop for more than ten days, and the flooding situation in Chongzhou is indeed very serious.

Wu Meijiu wanted to get out of Chongzhou as soon as possible, and would not be a stumbling block to the forest, but he didn't want him to go to the wilderness to observe the people's situation in this ghost weather; Han Zai also just wants to maintain the situation that he is ostensibly fighting against Lin Lian, and he doesn't want to be too faceless in front of Wang Tian and Yue Lengqiu.

The people never expect their parents to live a simple life like them, but at such a difficult time, when people can't get through it, they expect their parents to appear like a savior. At this time, no matter how hard it was, Lin Lian couldn't bear to hide in Zilang Mountain to enjoy Qingfu.

"There seems to be someone over there......"

Lin Jian looked in the direction of Ao Canghai's finger, and there were several black shadows lying on the roof of a thatched hut immersed in the water in the distance, and through the vast rain curtain, he could barely see that it was for the refugees trapped in the water.

The water potential of the Salt River overflowing the embankment is still rising, and the thatched hut is left on the water, and it is also crumbling after so many days of flooding.

Several guards waded through the water and rescued a family of five, young and old, from the middle of the water.

"The capital eunuch made Lord Lin save you, and he didn't kowtow to thank you." Li Shuyi saw that people were rescued, and he always wanted to save some prestige for Lin Xuan, and said with some pretense.

The family of five was busy kowtowing to thank him, but their eyes were fixed on the crumbling thatched hut that was submerged in the middle of the water, and for them, this simple thatched hut might be everything.

Lin Tie picked up the affected villagers, saw that they had been trapped in the water for a few days, so hungry that they could not stand up, took out the leftover wheat cakes and dried meat from under the saddle, distributed them to them, comforted them and said: "In a few days, the water will recede, the house will collapse, you can rebuild, you can rest assured, the county will never look at your ...... sleeping in the wilderness" This family of five people was also hungry, devouring wheat cakes, the fifteen or sixteen-year-old black thin boy choked after only swallowing a few mouthfuls of bread, When lying on the ground, scoop the raw water under your feet and drink.

Lin Tie stopped the young man, untied the water bladder under the saddle and handed it to him: "This water bladder is for you, drink it slowly, don't choke anymore - you have to remember, and remember to tell others, the water must be boiled before drinking, otherwise it is easy to get epidemics......" Seeing that the family was about to kneel down and thank them with gratitude, Lin Tie hugged them and instructed Li Shuyi to say, "Li Shuyi, you go and find the head of Lizhengjia, at present, the disasters in various places are serious, and Lijia can't help but dedicate himself." ”

"Yes, sir." Li Shuyi nodded and said, sending the official to find all the nearby Lizheng Jia chiefs.

Lin Jian waded through the water to look at the disaster situation nearby, many houses could not withstand the flooding, and collapsed a lot, but fortunately, the damage of the waterlogging was not so violent, and the personnel were not harmed, but the refugees formed as a result were numerous.

Lin Lian waded through the water and walked three or four miles, Li Zheng in the camphor and the three nearby armor chiefs caught up with the rain, such a heavy rain, walking in a hurry, and the rain was useless, people stood in front of Lin Lian, and their bodies were drenched in heavy rain.

"Are you the Lizheng here?" Lin Jian stared at the thin middle-aged man in a thin cotton robe and asked.

Ordinary villagers still think that the county prince is the parent official of Chongzhou County, but the elders of the township know that the young man in front of them is the master of Chongzhou County.

"Back to my lord, the villain is Lizheng Luofu in the camphor, and I am waiting for my lord's orders."

Lin Jian said: "There is a shortage of manpower in the county, and half of the Jiangdong Left Army has also been dispatched to various townships and villages to participate in disaster relief, and you should also take responsibility." The relief money and grain used in advance, a copper and a grain of rice, the Jiangdong Left Army and the county will not be repaid, but if there are villagers who starve to death due to disasters in all townships and villages, I will never show mercy to you! Pointing to the dozens of disaster-stricken people who followed all the way behind him, he said to Jiuhua Lizheng Luofu, "They will also be handed over to you for resettlement for the time being......

"The township neighbors have been affected by the disaster, and the villains and the big families in the village have no reason to stand idly by, please rest assured," Luo Fu leaned slightly, and looked at Lin Lian's eyes without too much fear, after all, he could push out the township when he was right, mostly for the big families in the township, and he had seen the world, he said, "It's just that in the past two years, there have been many displaced people who have come over." They occupy the riverbanks in droves, gritting their teeth and saying that they are borderlands. The county doesn't care, and the township can't afford to evict them, and this time these people are the hardest hit. What about these people? I'm afraid I'm afraid that I'm going to start, and the refugees from the counties in the north and west are pouring in, and the village can't cope with it......"

Before the disaster on Xisha Island last year, more than 40,000 displaced people gathered on Xisha Island alone, and 80,000 displaced people were stranded in Chongzhou County, if not 100,000. A large number of displaced people from Yannan, Shandong, and the northwestern part of Zhongzhou poured south, and the stranded foreign population in Chongzhou County also increased further.

This is also the main reason why the registration of Dingkou in Chongzhou County is only in the early 200,000s, and the actual number of Dingkou is far more than that.

Although Chongzhou County is located in the Jianghuai Plain, the land of fish and rice, not every piece of land is suitable for cultivation, such as the river beach land and low-lying land that are flooded when flooded, and the wasteland that is usually uncultivated, and the absolute number is still a considerable number.

A large number of displaced people have poured south, so that Chongzhou County, which has a vast land and abundant resources, is also facing the dilemma of many people and few fields, and the river flats and low-lying lands that are usually unseen by no one have naturally become fields that can be used for farming.

These barren beaches and low-lying lands were originally ownerless, and they were considered a kind of public land, but the displaced people from the south wanted to cultivate, which naturally gave the wealthy clans of the nearby townships the occupied land in the past - this is also a major factor in the formation of hidden dingkou and fields to evade taxes - Lin Jian has been checking these during this time, and he is very clear about this kind of situation.

In this flood, a large number of low-lying land, river beach fields were inundated, and when the townships reported the disaster, they reported these fields in order to avoid more grain rations.

In the face of the questioning of Li Li Zheng Luo Fu of Xiangzhang, Lin Jian did not hesitate much, and said: "Lijia gives priority to helping the villagers, if there are too many outsiders coming in, exceeding Lijia's relief capacity, Lijia needs to send people to Jiuhua Temple, Zilang Mountain, and Hecheng Division to concentrate on relief, and there are disaster relief camps in these three places." If the township does not fulfill this responsibility, so that there are starvation bones on the road, I still have to investigate the responsibility of the sub-jurisdiction! Then he asked the dozens of victims who had followed him along the way, "How many of you came from other places?" The fragmented fields that were finally reclaimed have been flooded, and the grass sheds have been flooded, don't worry, you can go to Jiuhua Temple with me first. Although the conditions are difficult, if you choose to settle down in Chongzhou, I will not watch you starve to death......"

Lin Jian turned back to Li Shuyi and Ao Canghai and said, "Let's go to Jiuhua Temple......"

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Jiuhua Temple was originally a big temple in the northwest of Chongzhou County, Lin Jian used the bandit case to expel the monastic forces in Chongzhou County, and Jiuhua Temple was also taken over by the Jiangdong Left Army, becoming a garrison of the Jiangdong Left Army in the northwest corner of Chongzhou County.

Jiuhua Temple after three months of transformation, has now been transformed into a military fortress with a circumference of more than 800 steps, the garrison has also been raised from the initial one post of 200 soldiers to two posts of 400 soldiers, by the deputy commander of the Chongzhou infantry battalion Liu Zhenzhi is in charge, but here is still marked as Jiuhua Temple on the map.

After the inventory of the fields, more than 60,000 fields were actually replaced to the military tun near the Jiuhua Temple, and there were more than 3,000 affiliated tenant farmers on these fields. These tenants were the first direct beneficiaries of the rent reduction and tax reduction after the inventory of the fields, and they were also the first ordinary people in Chongzhou County to support the Jiangdong Left Army.

After the reduction in June, Lin Jian asked Liu Zhenzhi to organize the young men of the nearby tenants for military rotation training. In addition to the tenants and displaced people from other villages who were seriously affected near Jiuhua Temple, there were also many refugees from Xinghua and Gaocheng.

When Lin Jian arrived at Jiuhua Temple, the rain stopped for a while. Watching Lin Jian rush back, the voices of the people in the disaster relief camp boiled:

"The envoy is here, Lord Lin is here......" "Now everyone is saved, the envoy will never watch everyone suffer." "Who is the Metropolitan Envoy?" "Lord Lin, the capital eunuch who killed Donghai Kou crying and calling his mother in the bloody battle of Jiyang, and Lord Lin, the capital eunuch who killed Donghai Kou's crying father and calling his mother, don't you know?" "It turned out to be him, who came in the heavy rain, his clothes and armor were dripping, maybe he was a good official." "What do you mean? The envoys of the capital overseers came to Chongzhou, and the summer grain harvest of the tenants around them was nearly half more than in previous years. With such a heavy rain, do you see any official running around for refugees outside? The envoy of the capital has been running non-stop to almost every corner of Chongzhou County, and even when he eats, he sits on the side of the road and eats flatbread with everyone. In these years, there is such an official who thinks about the people, and he just let you meet him, so you can secretly burn high incense......"

Chongzhou County was seriously affected by the disaster, and Lin Jian ran around non-stop to inspect the disaster, and Lin Mengde, Cao Ziang, Sun Jingtang, Fu Qinghe, Hu Zhiyong, Sun Jingxuan and others naturally could not sit in Zilang Mountain. In addition to Liu Zhen in Jiuhua Temple, Cao Ziang also personally sat here to be responsible for disaster relief.

Seeing Lin Jian coming, Cao Ziang and Liu Zhenzhi greeted him. Lin Tie took down the little girl with yellow muscles on horseback, handed it over to the guards, sent the little girl and her family to the disaster relief camp, and said to Cao Ziang: "This rain has stopped for a while, I don't know when it will pour down again, and I still can't relax here......"

"Originally, I planned to dig the Xishan River and the Yunyan River this autumn and winter to connect the two rivers," Cao Ziang said, "and now it seems that we can dredge the Yunyan River at the same time...... Do you know how many refugees are staying in the disaster relief camp here these days? ”

"How many?" Lin Jian asked.

"There are 32,000 people, and I have roughly counted them, and most of them are customers who have been stranded in Chongzhou in recent years!" Cao Ziang replied, "If you are really ruthless to find out the hidden population of Chongzhou, it will not be a problem to organize 100,000 young people to build a new city and dig rivers at the same time in autumn and winter......

"Do you really want to make this decision?" Lin Tie held his chin and asked.

"After this disaster relief, the people's hearts should be on our side, and although there is a local rebound, there is no need to worry," Cao Ziang said. The distorted fact that a large amount of public land was encroached upon by the wealthy clans of the countryside must also be corrected. Dredging rivers and transforming river flats and low-lying lands into arable public land that can be rented to tenants from other towns for cultivation can further strengthen our roots in Chongzhou. In fact, as long as the flood season has passed, the connecting river between the Xishan River and the Yunyan River can be excavated by manual ......"

"Okay, then let's do it." Lin Jian nodded, affirming Cao Ziang's suggestion.

Lin Jian has been thinking about the source of troops of the Jiangdong Left Army.

Chongzhou is a land of fish and rice, and even if the locals are poor, they can barely survive, lacking the courage to struggle. Although they can be recruited to defend the territory, but at the same time, considering that their sense of identity with the Jiangdong Left Army is not so strong, the locals of Chongzhou cannot be regarded as core soldiers who can be relied on.

The Jiangdong Left Army was formed on the basis of the most untrustworthy displaced people, and it also created a jaw-dropping glorious record.

In fact, for those displaced people who are forced to leave their homes by survival, the thirst for land and stable survival is unimaginable to ordinary people, and the courage inspired by this is also unimaginable to ordinary people.

However, it is often difficult for the displaced people to succeed, and it has little direct relationship with the courage of the displaced individuals, the most important thing is that the organizational strength of the displaced people who started up in a hurry is too weak, and there is not enough military logistics support, so it is impossible to integrate the individual courage into the sharpness required by an elite division.

The current recruitment base of the Jiangdong Left Army is only Dingkou, which is less than 40,000 displaced people placed on Xisha Island, and the soldiers are selected from the 40,000 Dingkou, forming the scale of more than 6,500 auxiliary soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army, which has almost reached the recruitment limit of one household out of one ding.

If the foundation for recruiting troops is not consolidated, it is impossible for the Jiangdong Left Army to become stronger and stronger.

The first thing Lin Tie wanted to win over in Chongzhou was the outcasts who had left their hometowns and stranded in Chongzhou, and he wanted to do everything possible to let them take root in Chongzhou, benefit from the Jiangdong Left Army, and become a firm force supporting the Jiangdong Left Army. There is nothing to hesitate about offending local forces because of this.